Adders wrote:
I also got a copy of the Acorn Electron World Books collection DVD and it's absolutely brilliant!
There's a few book I remember either owning or borrowing from the library all those years ago.

Are these extra books on top of what is downloadable on the Interweb like those found on 8bs.com ?

Adders wrote:
I also got a copy of the Acorn Electron World Books collection DVD and it's absolutely brilliant!
There's a few book I remember either owning or borrowing from the library all those years ago.

Are these extra books on top of what is downloadable on the Interweb like those found on 8bs.com ?

I'm not sure. But there are around 133 books altogether. Absolutely amazing collection.

The DVD was worth every penny. I think it cost less than a tenner, with free postage and is actually 2 DVDs in one case.
I spent a few hours yesterday day just browsing through the collection.
Best 10 quid I've spent in a long time.

Dave reminded me about the custom MOS for Electron for the GoSDC so you can load tapes (i.e. UEFs) from GoSDC. Got all that working fine.

Now although JK provides scripts to get STH BBC Disk Archive onto GoSDC I didnt see the same for Electron.

So I wget'ed all of the Electron Tapes from STH and knocke up the following quick and dirty scripts to put them on my Electron SDC card (1st 4GB is Electron, 2nd 4GB is the BBC Disk Archive from STH + misc).

Caveat the code may destroy you system, and take out half of the Universe.

I am sorry to 'bump' this, but I am still having the problem below and it is way beyond me. I have had a good hunt around online to try and solve this 'free pointer' thing but can find nothing. I just thought I would have one more try here, if no then I will probably accept as truth my suspicion that I have somehow corrupted my SD card, reformat and start from scratch. Sounds like a faff though, especially as it works fine in my electron

woolly_axolotl wrote:Hello everyone,

I was just wondering if anyone else was having this problem, or if it is just me. I have been using GoSDC quite happily for some time now. The GoSDC is working well with my electron, however I have just tried adding some new .ssd files to it on my Macbook and am getting the following message:

The same message comes up when I try to add a disc as well. TBH I have no idea what this means or what to do. I am using all the same commands as ever, the only thing I have done recently is to upgrade to Yosemite. I do hope it's nothing to do with that!

Any pointers would be very welcome. I can go so far in the Terminal and then I get a bit lost. Quite annoying, I was looking forward to playing Sphinx Adventure!

I've given-up on my Mac for trying to read the GoSSD SSD card! I now use the Windows SSD card reader, GoMMC Explorer, software that was pointed to earlier, by Adders, in this thread - here. It has a few quirks but once you know them then everything runs OK.

Alas that did not work. In the end I formatted and started again which has worked. Now running as smoothly as you could want. Must have got corrupted somehow. I wonder if you don't have to be much more careful taking the card in and out of the machine than I would have thought. I can't think how else that can have happened. Will take to only removing it with the elk off I think. Thanks all for helping out.

I was going to post saying I need a GoSDCio for Dimmies for Windows, as I can't seem to get my head around it having discovered my laptop has a SDC socket. I've extrapolated from the sudo discussion that I need to be logged on as Admin to access raw disks, but that still gives me 'cannot access flash drive' errors. I'm going to try the MMC explorer linked above to see if that gets me any further.

Well, I am still having intermittent problems with the SD card corrupting, even now it is in a Beeb, so I have my suspicions about what the SD card reader on my mac is doing, but I am having another problem that I was wondering if someone might be able to help with.

I can back up the SD card with:

sudo ./GoSDCio -d/dev/disk2 -c "BACKUP desktop"

This gives me a folder on my desktop with the red 'stop' symbol in the bottom right corner which I cannot access. The file is also called 'desktop'. Presumably this contains the script and the files on the card but I cannot check. Whenever I try to restore it using the -f "BACKUP" variation of the script, I am unable to do so. Does anyone know what is required to restore the backup onto the card? I cannot decide whether I need to (somehow) change the permissions on this folder to retrieve the contents or what.

This is a steep and interesting learning process, but also rather frustrating!

You should end up with a directory containing a loads of sequential numbered files and a file called script.

I have done it on numerous occasions and dont remember having an issue. I can get to my Acorns at the moment due to a large file of stuff for a refurbishment being in the way. But I am looking at my GoSDC backup dir.

You should be able to change the permissions of the folder so that you can read it, althgouh I dont remember having to do that.

That has helped enormously, thank you. I have worked out how to change the permissions (thanks, Google) and am now into the folder. No idea why that became an issue all of a sudden but it is now resolved.